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LOT 1282
Akkadian Cylinder Seal with Presentation Scene
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
5/8 in. (7.1 grams, 16 mm).
Haematite with a seated bearded male figure in long robes and cap, hand held up and holding a cup, crescent moon above; to the front a male deity wearing long robes and a horned cap leading a male figure by the hand, male in long robes and hand held to mouth; behind a male figure in long robes and arms crossed over chest, rectangular panel with three columns of cuneiform text. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom an important North London collection formed in the late 1980s.
From a collection acquired from various auction houses in the UK.
From the estate of Mr R.W., a private Wiltshire, UK, collector; thence by descent.
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